Current Mercedes

Mercedes GP

FIA Entry: Mercedes GP Petronas F1 Team
Car 7: Michael Schumacher
Car 8: Nico Rosberg
Engine: Mercedes V8
Team Principal: Ross Brawn
Technical Director: Bob Bell
Race Engineer Car 7: Mark Slade
Race Engineer Car 8: Tony Ross

Stats as of end 2010

First Entered 2010
Races Entered 19
Race Wins 0
Pole Positions 0
Fastest Laps 0
Driver World Championships 0
Constructor World Championships 0

Team History

The Mercedes team history splits into two parts. In 1954 the famous pre-war Silver Arrows entered the F1 world championship and recorded a 1-2 at their first race. Fangio went on to win the drivers championship that year and again in 1955. Mercedes withdrew at the end of the 1955 season after the accident which killed 80 spectators at Le Mans which involved one of their cars.

The current team entered F1 in 2010 after Mercedes bought Brawn Grand Prix. Brawn Grand Prix, winners of the Drivers Championship, with Jenson Button, and the constructor’s championship in 2009, grew out of the ashes of Honda’s F1 entry after Honda had withdrawn from F1 at the end of the 2008 season after only a single Grand Prix win for Button in Hungary 2006.

Prior to the Honda takeover in 2006 the team had raced under the name of British America racing which had acquired the assets and race entry of the Tyrrell F1 team in 1999. BAR competed in 118 races without a single victory. The high points for the team were 2 pole positions (both for Button – San Marino 2004 and Canada 2005) and 2nd in the constructors championship in 2004.

Tyrrell were amongst the most successful private F1 teams taking part in 463 Grands Prix, scoring 33 victories and 3 Drivers Championships, all with Jackie Stewart.

2010

Having replaced Button and Barrichello with Nico Rosberg and 7 times WDC Michael Schumacher many expected great things of the new Mercedes team in 2010 but they had an indifferent season.

Rosberg managed 3 podiums for the team but Schumacher, coming back from retirement, struggled with the new cars, tyres and limited testing under the revised regulations. The team finished 4th in the Constructors Championship.

2011

For 2011 Mercedes retain the same driver line up and are hoping for better things from their MGP W02 chassis.

 

[gethinceri]

No.

 

[Mephistopheles]

Why would they, unless one of their championship contenders has a serious accident and is put out of action for the rest of the season...

 

[Bill Boddy]

Why would they, unless one of their championship contenders is put out of action for the rest of the season...

An alternative view.

 

[F1Yorkshire]

Sniffs on a roll today.

http://sniffpetrol.com/2014/09/25/merc-f1-announces-new-greeting-card-range/

 

[KekeTheKing]

2 hours and counting. Have fun with that repair job boys. No lunch today.

 

[The Artist.....]

Interesting rumour played out today; Alonso/Ferrari sounded out Mercedes for a straight swap of Alonso for Hamilton. Mercedes refused.

(A similar rumour of an Alonso Vettel swap was also refused by Red Bull).

 

[Brogan]

Congratulations to Mercedes on their first WCC.

 

[Hamberg]

They planned this for a long time and it's properly paid off! Well done

 

[Johnny Carwash]

Nice to see a different team winning the constructors title. Well done Mercedes.

 

[FB]

Totally dominant and the three races they didn't win were more about them losing the race rather than anyone else beating them.

 

[racecub]

Yes good job Mercedes! Party time tonight I think!

 

[cider_and_toast]

Total domination leading to a well deserved constructors title.

 

[teabagyokel]

We knew this would happen since Melbourne. Best engine, best chassis, best all-round driver line-up. Congratulations all, they deserve it for their total domination.

 

[Mephistopheles]

Hardly hard fought for though was it? More like cracking a walnut with a sledgehammer and then patting oneself on the back for doing a good job even though the result was inevitable..

 

[Brogan]

How terrible of Mercedes to do the best job and beat their rivals.

What were they thinking of?

 

[cider_and_toast]

I guess you can't blame a team for winning. As we've seen so often in years gone by. It's not the job of the team out front to make it a competition it's down to everyone else to catch up. Granted the way the rules are written means that everyone has next to no chance (with the exception of a mid-season rule clarification of course )

Merc got their package working right out of the box.

 

[Mephistopheles]

I didn't say it was terrible I just said it was a forgone conclusion and you know that I am correct Brogan

Edit

Okay I admit I don't like forgone conclusions in sport, call me old fashioned if you must, but for me it kinda detracts from the event...

 

[ExtremeNinja]

The championship started nearly two years ago when everyone started developing for the new regulations, getting their teams and drivers in order and generally getting prepared. Luck is where preparation and opportunity meet. They all had the same opportunity. It was not a foregone conclusion that Mercedes would be best prepared. You came to a lot of early conclusions during this season that you have had to completely backtrack on. The outcome of the drivers title is not a foregone conclusion. There are three races left that are absolutely critical to the final result, and we don't know what is going to happen in any of them. With blurred foresight comes 20-20 hindsight.

 

[Mephistopheles]

I have not back tracked on any of them I said this year will be boring and it has been, I said one of the two merc drivers will win the WDC and one of them will do, I said it will probably be Lewis and it probably will be, so where have I back tracked on anything ExtremeNinja ?

 

[ExtremeNinja]

You said the championship would be a walk in the park for Lewis and that he would have had the championship sewn up 5 races ago and then you very much stopped saying that and diverted your attentions to find something else to moan about... I think it was everything else.